(An extreme view of tree plantation & a small example of practice) -From "The Butterfly Diaries" Its that time of the year when civic and nature organisations in India wake up from their slumber and begin to consider tree-planting yet again. Though this
is an annual affair, strangely India’s forest cover and biomass doesn’t seem to improve even where these activities are being carried out. Typically, tree plantation begins with the collection of whatever dismal fare in saplings the forest department is willing
to provide, followed by the desultory digging of holes and careless planting of trees. This activity, concluded in a couple of days in the early monsoon, will be followed by a relapse into torpor. The final act is, of course, the appearance of a plague of
self-publicised reports in the papers.